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In this guide i tell how i succeed to capture video from my canon recorder, add timestamp information on display and convert it to xvid video. Tools i use does not require any extra licensing, however some of them may not available to you depending on your operating system.

Tools i use:
* Windows Maker (Comes with Window OS, in order to capture video)
* DV_DateCode (Freeware, in order to extract timestamp information)
* Windows Media Encoder (Can be downloaded from microsoft, in order to extract sound from captured DV video)
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1-) Use Windows Movie Maker to capture video

2-) Use DV_Datacode to extract timestamp information as subtitle
3-) Normally extracting sound is not required because every video rendering tool is also capable of rendering audio data. However the problem is, except windows media encoder, none of the tools (including commercial trial ones) i tried could handle audio. Some of them could not render DV audio, some could not set right bit rate/kHz info (which was not editable), some added noise...